Market Church St. Bonifacius (Bad Langensalza)

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The west portal

The Protestant market church of St. Bonifacius is the main church of the town of Bad Langensalza and was built and expanded in several phases from the middle of the 13th to the end of the 16th century in the Gothic style. It belongs to the parish Bad Langensalza in the parish of Mühlhausen of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

Building

The market church of St. Bonifacius is a late Gothic three-nave hall church with a retracted choir . The one-hand watch is a specialtyon the tower, which was installed there in 1612. The height of 81 m attributed to the market church tower in the 19th century did not withstand a subsequent measurement. According to the latest findings, the tower of the Marktkirche measures 72.49 or 73.6 meters, depending on the measurement method. It remains one of the tallest church towers in Thuringia. The church was originally planned with two steeples. This can be clearly seen from the fact that the one existing tower in the axis of the nave is not central, but shifted. The construction of the second church tower had to be abandoned because of the decline in Waid financial resources became scarce trade of Bad Langensalza. The pointed arch west portal made of sandstone forms the main entrance to the church. It shows the visitor the judgment of God as a warning image . The north portal was designed by the Parlerschule from Prague and depicts the crucifixion scene. The previously common color scheme of the portals, figures and interior walls was later lost. The chancel and the "nuns gallery" have a coffered ceiling , an inscription dates the renovations to the year 1519. The painting of the church was renewed with further renovations in the 16th century. On the east side of the church there is a walled-up archway at a height of about 5 meters. This was part of a connecting corridor to the Weißfrauenkloster, which was located on the site of today's Hainich National Park Administration. The corridor led into the nuns gallery of the church. It was created so that the white women would not come into contact with earthly filth when they wanted to get into the church.

Furnishing

Pulpit from 1734
  • The pulpit in the central nave was a gift from the Pfaff family from Langensalza in 1734. The hexagonal shape of the pulpit is based on the decorations on the pillar base. The also hexagonal sound cover forms the end of the pulpit.
  • The simple structure of the altar dates from the 19th century. The painting shows the crucifixion of Christ and is dated around 1430.
Altar and stained glass window
  • Five large ogival tracery windows:
    • According to the inscription, the apex window was designed by Wenzel Schwarz and executed by the Robert Fischer workshop (Dresden) in 1891.
    • The stained glass window for the Sermon on the Mount and two other donated stained glass windows were made in the Wilhelm Franke Naumburg workshop in 1910 . The successor company Domglas Naumburg has been with archive documents since 1966 .
    • The tracery windows of the church have been partially restored with colored glazing from the 19th century.

The church is an important monument of the city of Bad Langensalza, the last renovation was started in 1994 with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

literature

  • Michael Manger: The market church of St. Boniface in Bad Langensalza. History and description of the building. Bad Langensalza 2004, ISBN 3-937135-40-5

Web links

Commons : Marktkirche Bad Langensalza  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedemann Mertin: Church towers in Thuringia: Marienkirche Mühlhausen towers above all. April 20, 2019, accessed on February 16, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Falko Bornschein, Ulrich Gaßmann: Glass paintings of the 19th century - Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology and the Laboratory for Glass Painting Research of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Potsdam, of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-361-00614-7 , pp. 95 f .
  3. ^ Ingrid Scheuermann, Katja Hofmann: Funding projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . Ed .: German Foundation for Monument Protection. tape 1 (sacred buildings). Monuments, Bonn 2012, ISBN 3-935208-10-3 , p. 313 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 52"  E